Dr kynes
You say you are not pro plastic,
i am anti-garbage. i am pro-plastic. plastic is awesome, super useful, and really handy. but i use cloth shopping bags usually. i prefer them. whiskey bottles dont poke out and fall to the street at 40mph when im riding home on my motorbike when i use my backpack instead of shitty LDPE shopping bags. i consider broken whiskey in the street a tragedy.
but yet you almost seem to argue for plastic. Are you saying it's not that big of a deal and we are over reacting?
i am arguing against the hyperbolic and deceptive fake science evidenced by the OP, the shitty garbage island boat tour video, and the various internet documentaries which deliberatley falsify evidence for shock value "for our own good" if the truth isnt scary enough, why does the lie become necessary to sell the agenda?
Or are you saying plastic has no negative effect on the environment?
read this story from the new york times, about the EPA cracking down and those notorious polluters THE AMISH FARMER, and ask yourself why amish farms are considered pollution sources, but conventional agricultural runoff is not...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/science/earth/09amish.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
and dont believe the headlines, this is not "rare" back in 2003 the EPA sued several pennsylvania amish communities over their "pollution" to protect a freshwater snail, which had been thriving happily alongside these same amish farms since their original land grant from George Washington. (the EPA lost... lulz)
reasonable regulation to reduce pollution and improve water, air and soil quality is good. over-reaching insane wacky kneejerk reactions are bad.
Not sure what you are getting at. I use plastic time from time I will admit. I am not perfect. I mean everybody has to , if you buy yogurt, vacum sealed products, bagged lettuce. But, I try and recycle everything else. I just don't get how some people can be so small minded that they don't think things like air pollution, land pollution and water pollution is made up hogwash.
the IDEA is not hogwash, but the exaggeration is insane. i recycle everything i can, i pick up other asshole's litter when i go gold panning or hiking and pack it out, and i dispose of my used oil properly. sometimes a plastic shopping bag is helpful. i will not crucify myself for using them.
I bums me out how bad people can treat this planet. I may sound like a tree huger, but I am not. I grew up near lake tahoe, played football and wrestled and smoked weed. I was raised in one of the most beautiful parts of the usa. I would never want my lake or forest where I grew up to be littered with tons of trash. Lake tahoe is one of the nicest lakes around. The clarity is amazing. They have banned two stroke engines from the lake. Also have strict rules for boaters. It may seem like a pain in the ass, but you have to think long term. Have something beautiful that many generations can enjoy.
we must stop the predations of the amish, to save the planet for future genrations.... does this sound like sound government regulation to you?
government is OFTEN the problem, not the solution. and the trash island does not exist. it is a fiction created to make you feel guilty, afraid and ashamed. the same emotions used by dogmatic religions to control their flock. if you let them controll you like a sheep, dont be surprised when you get sheared.
edit: heres one of my favorite examples of Eco-Evangelism gone wild "for our own good" :
"Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.[SUP][12][/SUP] A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable.[SUP][13]"[/SUP]
~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming
thats right HURLED OFF A CLIFF BY A MECHANICAL TURNTABLE!!!! ohh disney, you so evil...